Discussion for PPAP Community Review meeting on Neutrino and non-accelerator-based physics

PPAP has arranged three one-day community review meetings to help provide input to the STFC roadmap. Further details can be found on the PPAP web pages.

The second of these meetings, to be held on July 14 in Birmingham, is on energy frontier physics. The agenda, together with the membership of the Programme Committee, can be found on the INDICO page.

This forum is intended for discussion prior to this meeting. In particular, the Programme Committee would appreciate comments in response to the questions outlined below. Responses should preferably be made by posting a comment below (please register so that comments can be appropriately attributed). Alternatively, confidential comments can be sent by email to the Programme Committee chair and deputy chair (please do this only if there is a need for comments to be kept confidential).

Please note that these questions are intended to provoke discussion and do not necessarily reflect the views of PPAP or the Programme Committee.

1. What should be the main UK priorities for neutrino and non-accelerator physics over the next ten years?

2. How should the UK be preparing for the long term Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation experimental programme (in the US, Europe or Japan)?

3. What should be the UK strategy for Neutrinoless Double Beta-decay for the next ten years and beyond. What level of funding is desirable/reasonable?

4. What should be the UK involvement in Dark Matter experiments and what level of funding is desirable/reasonable?

5. What level of investment should there be in the Boulby underground laboratory or at other sites world-wide?

6. What should be the level of investment in the development of Liquid Argon for neutrino physics?

7. What should be the level of UK involvement in detector and accelerator R&D for the neutrino factory (including MICE)?